John Hoeven Quotes
The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.
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Isolationism is over.
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There is always pressure in football.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.
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I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.
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We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.
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Stop with the stupid messages. I don't need a message that says, 'Go on, you can do it today.' What does that mean?!
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The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.
